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Delirium and destiny
Written by one of twentieth-century Spain's most prominent intellectuals, this book—part memoir, part lyrical novel—is both a Bildungsroman about a young woman's intellectual formation during a crucial period of Spanish history (1929-1931) and a philosophical meditation upon the individual's plac...
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Xunzi and early chinese naturalism
Explores Xunzi's thought in relation to the early Chinese philosophical context that relied on the natural world.Xunzi, one of the founders of Confucianism, is often compared to Aristotle in the sense that Xunzi is a great synthesizer as well as an original thinker in his own right. This book sit...
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Metaphor and knowledge
Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts.Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving tog...
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What is knowledge?
Appearing in English for the first time, this book comprises two of Ortega's most important works, ¿Qué es conocimiento? and the essay "Ideas y creencias." This is Ortega's attempt to systematically present the foundations of his metaphysics of human life and, on that basis, to provide a radical ...
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Geophilosophy of the mediterranean
Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political co...
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Frustrated nationalism
Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.The nation-state is seen by many today as the key unit of analysis for international org...
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Approaching monumentality in archaeology
Interdisciplinary study of monumental art and architecture in human history.Monumentality is a human phenomenon that has occurred in nearly all times and places. Because of its ubiquity, monumentality is something that has been studied by a large number of disciplines and individuals. Approaching...
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A pedagogy of witnessing
Explores the curating of "difficult knowledge" through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.This outstanding comparative study on the curating of "difficult knowledge" focuses on two museum exhibitions that presented the same lynching photographs. Through a detailed desc...
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The ritual of battle
This book is a study of India's great epic, the Mahābhārata, against the background of Indo-European myth, epic, and ritual. It builds upon the pioneering studies in these areas by Georges Dumezil and Stig Wikander to work toward the goal of understanding how this epic's Indo-European heritage is...
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Onetti and others
Explores the connections between Onetti, a foundational figure of the 1960s "Boom" in Latin American literature, and other relevant writers and texts from Latin America and beyond.International scholars explore the connections between Juan Carlos Onetti, one of the foundational figures of the 196...
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The hermeneutic tradition
The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.Here are the major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions-the major statements on the aims, me...
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Trial and error
Questions the commonly accepted view that Israel's military policies were formed in direct response to Arab states' hostility and argues for a historical linkage between Israel's changing military posture and the development of an inequitable Israeli social structure.Trial and Error offers a uniq...
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Nationalism and self-government
Examines the nature of nationalist mobilization in Scotland and Catalonia.Scotland and Catalonia, both ancient nations with strong nationalisms within larger states, are exemplars of the management of ethnic conflict in multinational democracies and of global trends toward regional government. Fo...
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Joy and the objects of psychoanalysis
Shows how literature can aid psychoanalysts in the understanding of psychological conflicts.For more than a hundred years, psychoanalysts have applied their theories of neurosis to objects of culture, including literature. In this book, psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and scholar of religion Volne...
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White cottage, white house
Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.White Cottage, White House examines how Classical Hollywood cinema developed and deployed Irish American masculinities to negotiate, consolidate, an...
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The civil rights act of 1964
Tells the story (in the participants' own words) of how a determined southern filibuster was turned back in the U. S. Senate and the 1964 Civil Rights Act made into law.This book details, in a series of first-person accounts, how Hubert Humphrey and other dedicated civil rights supporters fashion...
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Participation and the mystery
A groundbreaking and hopeful new look at contemporary spirituality, transpersonal psychology, integral education, and religious diversity and pluralism.Participation and the Mystery is both an introduction to and expansion of Jorge N. Ferrer's groundbreaking work on participatory spirituality, wh...
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The comparative hermeneutics of rabbinic judaism
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.Hermeneutics, conventionally defined as "theory of interpretation," in Rabbinic Judaism finds its data in the modes of analytical thought that produce useful knowledge out of the facts deriving from three source...
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Nature as sacred ground
Provides a metaphysical outlook for religious naturalism.Nature as Sacred Ground explores a metaphysics for religious naturalism. Donald A. Crosby discusses major aspects of reality implicit in his ongoing explication of Religion of Nature, a religious outlook that holds the natural world to be t...
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Samādhi
Explores yoga and meditation in Eastern religions, incorporating psychological and social aspects of these practices.A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts....
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Maimonides and st. thomas on the limits of reason
Shows that Maimonides and St. Thomas reached strikingly similar conclusions regarding the limits of reason and that these limits, in turn, show the dimensions of philosophical understanding.Through a comparative philosophical examination of the diverse aporiae constituting the question of "provid...
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Between transcendence and historicism
Argues that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel's philosophy of art.Between Transcendence and Historicism explores Hegel's aesthetics within the larger context of the tradition of theoretical reflection to emphasize its unique ability to account for traditional artistic practice. Argui...
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Jones's minimal
This book addresses the ways employers in American industries use race, gender, ethnicity, and institutions of the state and the church to manipulate workers' networks and communities, and ultimately, to control the supplies and characteristics of their labor.Griffith focuses on the labor process...
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"revolution in poetic language" fifty years later
Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.In her 1974 Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva resisted the abstract use of language, with its aim of totalization and finality, in all its co...
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The politics of inquiry
Argues against the "culture of science" currently dominating education discourse and in favor of a more critical understanding of various modes of inquiry.Winner of the 2010 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In Th...
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Bone, bronze, and bamboo
Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scho...
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Performing sex
A candid and provocative critique of women's sexual liberation in America.Silver Medalist, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues category Honorable Mention, 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category Although conventional wisdom holds that women in the Un...
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The republican hero
Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.Politically speaking, do heroes matter? Are we living in a post-heroic age? The Republican Hero addresses both these questions. The general tenor of modern thinking is that heroes do matter but that the modern age is characteri...
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Merleau-ponty and nishida
Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers' meditations on artistic expression.Winner for the 2023 European Network of Japanese Philosophy Award for Excellence in Japanese Philosophy presented...
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Ritual and religion in the xunzi
Challenges traditional views to consider Xunzi as a religious thinker.Xunzi, a founding figure in the Confucian tradition, is one of the world's great philosophers and theorists of religion. For much of the last century, his work has been seen largely as critical of religion, particularly the pop...
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Fdr's budgeteer and manager-in-chief
First study of Harold D. Smith, FDR's budget director from 1939 to 1945.In this book, Mordecai Lee provides a long-overdue examination of a key member of FDR's administration. Harold D. Smith was FDR's budget director from 1939 through to Roosevelt's death in 1945. In that capacity, he was also t...
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Beyond post-zionism
Comprehensive and critical analysis of the post-Zionist debates and their impact on various aspects of Israeli culture.Post-Zionism emerged as an intellectual and cultural movement in the late 1980s when a growing number of people inside and outside academia felt that Zionism, as a political ideo...
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Two in a bed
A fascinating look at the social experience of sharing a bed with another person.Millions of adults sleep with another adult, but what does it mean to share a bed with someone else, and how does it affect a couple's relationship? What happens when one partner snores? Steals the sheets? Prefers to...
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The holocaust and the nonrepresentable
Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.Many books focus on issues of Holocaust representation, but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such a representational problem. David Patterson draws from Emmanuel Levin...
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Buffalo's waterfront renaissance
Recounts how preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading a powerful state agency to abandon its plans for privately developing Buffalo's waterfront and instead revitalize the city by enhancing opportunities for members of the public to use and enjoy that same space.T...
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From the bayou to the bay
The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.In this refreshingly candid intellectual autobiography, Robert C. Smith traces the evolution of his consciousness and identity from his early days in rural Louisiana to his emergence as one of the nation'...
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China's belt and road power transition
Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China's leadership under Xi Jinping to create an alternative global economic and geopolitical order to challenge the United States.In the opening decades of the twenty-first century the Chi...
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Free jazz
A new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author's experience as a performer.In the late 1950s, free jazz broke all the rules, liberating musicians both to create completely spontaneous...
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Merleau-ponty and the face of the world
Assesses Merleau-Ponty's contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others.Before his death in 1961, Merleau-Ponty worried about what he ...
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Faithful to the task at hand
The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and educationBorn just twenty years after the end of slavery and orphaned at the age of five, Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) became a seventeen-time tennis champion and the first African American woman to win a major spor...
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Profits, power, and prohibition
This is the first comprehensive study of America's anti-liquor/anti-drug movement from its origins in the late eighteenth century through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933. It examines the role that capitalism played in defining and shaping this reform movement.Rumbarger challenges c...
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Julia kristeva
A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.Honorable Mention, 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalysis of the Canadian Psychological Association This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva's visi...
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